On the 3rd of July, many major Australian news outlets published articles condemning medical cannabis by suggesting that it has no efficacy in treating chronic non-cancer pain, including: the ABC, the Sydney Morning Herald and news.com.au. The Sydney Morning Herald,… Continue Reading
It’s hard to know where to start with this week’s safe injecting room story in the Herald Sun on 6 July, 2018. The highly stigmatising reporting begins at the headline with ‘Addicts Snub Injecting Facility’ and ‘Rejecting Room’. Aside from the… Continue Reading
Channel 10’s alarmist story on 13thJune, claiming the Queensland town of Caboolture was in the midst of an ‘ice epidemic’, is a fear-based work of fiction that merely serves to create moral panic, without providing readers any practical information. The… Continue Reading
On the 15/4/18, Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes aired a piece on methamphetamine (Ice) that used language that grossly exaggerated and misrepresented the scale of problems associated with methamphetamine in Australia. For example, reporter Tom Steinfort said, “In communities across Australia authorities fear… Continue Reading
On the 5th of April, the front page of the West Australian Newspaper read “Ice Epidemic”. In an ongoing battle by the mainstream media to report on which city is ranked as having the biggest methamphetamine problem, Sarah Martin from… Continue Reading
